GEORGIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

The Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 22, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

8,111

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for The Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery →

The Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery reported to HHS on 2024-04-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8111 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and treatment information.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 22, 2024

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8,111 affectedView incident

Name: The Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery
norm: the georgia institute for plastic surgery
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery
norm: the georgia institute for plastic surgery
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,111nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on the requirement to protect and secure PHI
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on the requirement to protect and secure PHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Apr 22, 2024
Raw hash: 982ff46588243272804a91c8ddc67b2b9995d55698e035e0a99eada2b4b569bf

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Reporting entityThe Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery

Victim entityThe Georgia Institute for Plastic Surgery

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing